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2009 Stories by Angela Ashman

• SPAIN’S FINEST

  published September 29, 2009

  Reminiscing about the first time he worked with Penélope Cruz on 1997’s Live Flesh, the Spanish director Pedro... More >>

• BOOGIE NIGHTS

  published September 29, 2009

  Forget everything you know about disco from Saturday Night Fever—tonight’s party for the launch of Vince Aletti’s new book... More >>

• LOVE HURTS

  published September 29, 2009

  If you’re familiar with the works of the iconoclastic choreographer William Forsythe, you know he’s as far from conventional dance as... More >>

• DRACULA’S FRIENDS

  published September 29, 2009

  Attention, all Twilight and True Blood fans: The world’s first vampire museum, the Museum of Vampyric Artifacts (MoVa), has... More >>

• LOOK OUT, BROADWAY

  published September 22, 2009

  The fun of going to the New York Musical Theatre Festival, which opened Monday—besides all the shows, of course—is trying to... More >>

• WHAT'S COOKIN'?

  published September 22, 2009

  Hey there, cool, artsy parents! Wanna know how you get your kids interested in avant-garde performance art? Start by taking them to The Kitchen... More >>

• ODE TO FREE RENT

  published September 22, 2009

  After years of struggling to pay the bills at its Soho headquarters, the Poets House, a national poetry library and literary center, now... More >>

• BICYCLE! BICYCLE!

  published September 15, 2009

  For the past two decades, David Byrne—artist, author, Talking Head, building player—has been exploring city streets, from... More >>

• SEQUINED SMACKDOWN

  published September 15, 2009

  Ever seen burlesque dancers and midget wrestlers perform together in one ring? We'll guess you probably haven't—unless you've already been... More >>

• GOOD BAR HUNTING

  published September 15, 2009

  Typically, we at the Voice don't like to travel farther for our beer than the Scratcher across the street, but we may have to make an... More >>

• LAUGH LINES

  published September 15, 2009

  The second annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, which, naturally, started as a joke between Mirman and his friends, is the antithesis to... More >>

• LET’S PAINT!

  published September 8, 2009

  On his cable-access TV show Let’s Paint TV, John Kilduff makes the average multitasker look like a slacker. A typical episode... More >>

• NOW READ THIS

  published September 8, 2009

  Already a geek’s delight, the Brooklyn Book Festival will be even more so this year with the brand-new addition of the New York Comic... More >>

• STRANGE BREW

  published September 8, 2009

  Questions that will be answered if you attend the NY Craft Beer Week: Where are the scariest dive bars in Brooklyn? What does a... More >>

• LOUD AND PROUD

  published September 8, 2009

  Though the audience at Madonna’s recent Bucharest concert may have booed her for speaking out against the discrimination of Eastern... More >>

• CALENDAR GIRLS

  published September 1, 2009

  You'll find much more than carnies and hot dogs if you head over to Coney Island today. The final day of the Coney Island Rockabilly... More >>

• THE SOUND OF SILENCE

  published September 1, 2009

  The next time someone tells you that one of your ideas is impossible, just think of this bit of advice from the ultimate iconoclast John Cage: "If... More >>

• CARTOON NETWORK

  published August 25, 2009

  Growing up, journalist Laurie Sandell loved hearing her Argentinian father's stories of winning war medals and rubbing elbows with famous people... More >>

• SHEAR THING

  published August 25, 2009

  Of all his films, Tim Burton has often said that Edward Scissorhands is the one closest to his heart. Burton drew on his own childhood... More >>

• DO THE HUSTLE

  published August 25, 2009

  At the end of writer-director Whit Stillman's 1998 film The Last Days of Disco, about the demise of disco in early-'80s Manhattan, yuppie... More >>

• QUICK DRAW

  published August 18, 2009

  British street artist Jon Burgerman says he used to get into trouble with his teachers for doodling in class. Now, the self-described... More >>

• FUNNY PEOPLE

  published August 18, 2009

  Some days, Wyatt Cenac is out exploring race relations as a buttoned-down correspondent on The Daily Show. Other days, he’s... More >>

• HARD BEAUTY

  published August 18, 2009

  “I think, for my type of personality, I might have been better as a male,” author Mary Gaitskill told The Believer earlier... More >>

• THE HIGH LIFE

  published August 11, 2009

  If you saw Pineapple Express in a movie theater, you may have felt as if something (cough, cough) was missing. Yes, smoking may be strictly... More >>

• FINE 'TOONING

  published August 11, 2009

  From the foreplay robot 4-Playo to Jesus' evil half-brother, Pagus, to the money-loving boy band Boybank, cartoonist Michael Kupperman has... More >>